TriE OMATTA DAILY HEE: SUNDAY, MAKCIT 27, lf04.
CREAT TASK OF TEACHERS
Importance of Stuly n tha W-yi, Habits
and Tend.noiei o 'Lei -dividual Ch Id.
DANGER OF DEVELOPING NERV0U3 TRAITS
Volatile Address DrllTrrril hy Dr. a.
Weir Mitchell to th Tftcktri
I (! Pnbll Srbools
of Philadelphia.
Th first of a aorlts of torture arranged
by and for the p-inrlpils and teichcrs of
the public schema of I'hlla'lf Iphla was de
livered hy Iir. B. Wtur Mitchell, famous
loth . a n nrurnl'clst mnl author. His
subject arn "The Xurvuus Diseases of
Children."
Dr. Mltihill an lil, In part:
Tear aft-r yir children In multitudes
come to jou, pass through the school,
acatter, fulfill their lives, marry, die. All
through their varied carpers thoy carry
more or leaa the character record of their j
echo"! life; mini you murk and v.iluably
modify for life; Home you cnont Impress, I
At all event, It Is a trust vital to the
future of our people.
It la ao easy to deM with It unjuatly
In my own profusion, which, too, In a
way, la educational, the long years of labor
oaalfy tjia onnar'once of some men, end
for othera tho yenra which brine; experi
ence and wisdom. Its child, bring, too, an
Increasing tondcrneea of conscience, a
larger view of professional obligation, a
feeling that to keep tyrat with duty la the
flneat moral punctuality. For me patients
are Individuals, and there la nothing to
their lives, ways, habits of character
which In Illness It Is unimportant to Itnow.
With you It should be the game, or much
the aame. This astounding fact of In
dividuality never loeea for mo an Interest
which la almost fascination. For you
there are thousands of children at various
agea. Every one of them la diatlnct and
different from the other.
The ordinary human being responds In
well known ways to medical agencies.
Then come tho exceptional people, and at
one you have repeated the lesson that
medicine la an art, not a science; that the
doctor who falla to Interrogate Individual
had better go and measure tape or be a
car conductor.
There are teachers In whom tho
grouped capacltlea which represent educa
tional talent rise almost to the level of
genius, and there are the naturalists of
pedagogy for whom character, tempera
ment and mental pecullarttlea appear to
have no accrete. If you have not this gift
of being an observer by the grace of Ood,
reat assured that you can become aurTl
clently competent by wakeful, steady cul
tivation of the art of seeing and hearing
what your senses report of the busy little
creature In your care.
atadr Dall Children.
Tou find In every class a proportion of
very dull children. They may be willing
may try to work. They merely cannot
keep up. A smaller number of them fall
back, only to fall again. Of these will be
a atlll smaller fraction who can neither
reason clearly nor remember even moder
ately well. Are they only dull, or U their
mental mechanlara hopelessly below the
average T Tou, I suppose, are to decide If
they should be relegated to the school for
the Imperfect. I do not envy you the task
of deciding. They may be underfed. Who
hall decide T Can the underfed atudy aa
well aa the well fed canT I doubt It. There
must be In every large group of children,
especially notable at the age of adolescence,
aome who become gradually Inert, dull, Una
capable. Any such sudden or gradual al
teration In mind or memory ought to exolte
your most kindly attention.
Before you conclude auch effect to be
essentially and primarily of the mind or
gan lone, be sure, through the help of
ome physician, that It la not the eyes,
throat or digestion or evil hablta that are
responsible. If these children must be rele
gated to the merely slow-minded, the pe
culiar, the mildly eccentric, there should
be for these In each large acbool dlatlnot
Clasaea.
I do hot mean that the eohools must pro
vide for the higher grade of the really de
fective. For them you require what I have
alluded to, special achoola, with manual
training and method not needed In schoola
for the healthy-minded or even the merely
dull or peculiar. , For both type the sys
tem demanded require unuaual pedagogic
capacity and power to Individualise.
For them the examination are terrible
teat, and Indeed these period for many
'other are the cauae of bringing out de-
fecta and maturing mischief. They are the
cause of much nervousness and hysteria
and the like In the women's college and
are injurious to those who are both ambl
tlous and emotional.
Borne fifteen years ago a great deal too
Much was exacted In the Girls' High
school. Mow it ia now I do not know, nor
d I know If In any grades too much Is
required. I know well that In our universi
ties fifteen to seventeen hours a week of
lecture and study suffice for the average
man. It I pur farce. Once out of the
universities and In the medical profession
they are compelled to atudy fifty or alxty
Hour a week.
St. Vitas' Disc.
Many year aao I undertook a atnrtv
In my clinics the cauaea of the disorder
anown aa cnorea, or Bt. vttur dance. It
turned out that weather had a hrh.
months of atorma that the chorea curve
also rose abruptly at the period of ex
amtnatlon and - their time of nnrnirk
When, therefore, at these season a or at
any other thne, you observe a child be
coming awkward In movements, twitching,
letting books fall, It would be well to eend
the child home, or at leaat to call atten
tion to the fact.
And thle la to be done not only In the
Intereata of the child! but becauee other
children In their tendency to become auto
matically Imitative are apt by a kind of
mental contagion to acquire aome form of
the Alaorder. I have over and over Been
It 'spread In the schools and give rise to
much annoyance. It needa long rest from
mind work, for at Its worst It lessena the
memory and the power of attention, ex
cltea remark and disturbs the speech.
It la eapily confounded with a minor
malady from wHch I separated It many
vrnra Ofro. This leeer trouble la now
fcnpwn since I wrote about It as the rmblt
ernsm, or habit chorea. It Is ' not true
rbore.-i. Ton will scf It often. A .'Mid
wlr.ki Incesnntlv. or Fhrtipp his sVmMei a,
or (witches the face. For a few days one
art of auch movements prevails; when (hat
rtops then another IicrIiis, It ge(s well
and rnrely needs treatment, and the trou
ble does not usually require a doctor to
tell It from chorea.
Sometimes, If It be very bad, the eyes
are at fault. Remember that! You will
ol.Ferve that a cert. tin small number of
girls, especially about examination time,
become nervous, cry easily and are apt, If
older, to be hyeterlcal. Here la a chance
for kindness, a little gentle, helpful talk
alone, leppona In the need of self-restraint
end self-government, anything but scold
ing or harsh words.
And this reminds me to aay a word
about the fldfreta which get onto the
nerves of aome teachers.
Healthy children are normally as rest
less aa klttena. Ood made them ao. Shut
them up, keep them seated and they move
uneasily, shuffle their fet, stare about
them. Blind children are the worst, and
also blind adults.
Phase of Epilepsy .
Now and then a child In the eChool
may have a fit. If It be a boy, It la, aa a
rule, epilepsy. If seen In a nervous, over
worked girl, It may be merely a hysterical
convulsion. In either case it Is apt to
alarm othera. and It la beat to have the
child at once removed from the room. In
neither case ia there need to be alarmed.
The hysteria passes. The epilepsy Is more
grave, and It la pretty surely epilepsy If
the child frothe at the mouth, bites the
tongue and enda In atupor.
It la not always eaay to be attre which
It la. Both cases may need other care
than yours, but eplleptlca do not die In
fits. Sometimes a child, while reciting,
stares, ceaes to speak, Is uneonseloua for
a moment. At home It passes unregarded
and unnoticed. It la what we call minor
epilepsy, and you will aervn the child by
calling attention to thla serious disorder.
X come laat to the subject of head
aches, and here you may be of the utmost
aervlee, for headaches are too commonly
regarded aa of no moment In the homea
of auch children aa make up the largest
P,art of your claases.
It la rare nowadays to find nervoua sys
tems wrecked by Inveterate headachea and
vertigo, but thirty year ago this resultant
disaster was common. At that time I
had the good luck to tell my profesaion
how a large per cent of headachea waa
due to bad eye, and to have wrestled
with auch a common evil aa headache and
taught how aurely to deal with It. I count
It a one of th happiest memories of a
lifelong con teat with disease.
Sometimes Imperfect eye cause vertigo,
or such confusion of mind aa makes atudy
Impoasible. The child geta credit for being
stupid or Idle, and then a pair of glasses
may make the differential diagnosis be
tween laxy vice and studious virtue.
Nervou children, Iay children, and ome
who are spoiled at home are quite clever
little mallgnerers, and will affect symptoms
and simulate sickness.
I hardly know how to treat It. It needs
kindness, firmness, and I quite too long
a chapter for my time.
CONDITION OF OMAHA TRADE
BELIGIOIS.
New Tork now haa a Mafcnnt-lA nf i
Syrian Qreek orthodox church, and Is no
longer a mere ecclesiastical appendage of
me Aieuuun isianus-
The Young Men' Chrlatlan association of
South Rend. Ind.. has received a donation
pf J.TAOuO from Btudebaker Bros, for a new
ouiiaing.
Rev. L. S. Stevens, for twenty-two years
rector Of Zlon church. Pontlac. Mich., has
reklgned active work and has been creeated
recior emeritus or me parish.
U I announced that aji army of 5,000
Zlonlte will Invade Sale Lake City, Utah,
next August. Three of the chief officers of
Zlon have visited Utah recently to survey
uieir cumempiaiea neiu or acuon.
Blahop Vincent of the Methodist Eplsco-
Sal church will soon return to this coun
ty, hla four year of Episcopal avpervlslon
of the Methodist Episcopal churches in
Europe ending tins month.
Bishop Whitehead and fifteen of the
clergy of Pittsburg, Allegheny, and their
suburbs, have addressed a letter to their
cciuret-ticna urging that church people
hould not countenance the intrusion of
grand opera into the solemn devotion of
holy week.
Bishop Greer says: "I have learned more
lessons of courage, patience, bravery and
splendid heroism from the poor of thl city
(New York) than from any other claas.
Whatever you do, don't go among the poor
in a spirit or patronage notning i ao
deadly."'
Rev. Dr. William A. Robinson, pastor of
the First Congregational church of Middle
town, N. Y., surprised his congregation by
handing in his resignation after thirty
nine years' service In the ministry. Ho said
be waa 64 years old and as army officer
were retlreed at that age he thought he
would retire.
Thirteen denomination, embracing 800
churches, have worked as one in Pittsburg,
Pa., during the lam month or mere. Seven
teen of the most successful evangelists of
the eountry have been conducting meetings
under (he leadership of Dr. J. Wilbur
Chapman. Two hundred uniformed police
men of Pittsburg and Allegheny attended
religious service in BIJou theater. Many
city officials and scores of newsboys were
also present
Vjjf BETTER W
- T MADE T
Not So If any En; art in the City, but Order
Buiineat Ver Brisk.
MERCHANTS BUYING FALL GOODS FREELY
i
Sharp Advaace la Price of Robber
Footwear aad Another Oae As
noeaeed for Jeae General
Market Strong.
Spring business waa in very aatlsfactory
condition last week In practically all lines.
There were possibly not aa many mer
cliunts In tne city aa have been here at
eorne previous times, but that was to be
expected, owing to the faot that the bulk of
the (1. y giMHls for spring are now soul, and
It is the dry go ds merchants who come to
the city nios( frequently, orders through
traveling men and direct from merchants
have be n very liberal, and Jobbers have no
complaints whatever to make. Ketallnre
are Inclined to clamor more or lews for
warm weather, but that la always the cnae
at this time of the year, as merchants al
ways seem to expect settled warm weather
before It is time for It.
Jobbers who Hre offering fall line? r.rw
more lhan plcaaud with the success they
have had tip to the present time. With
practically no exceptions retailers are buy
ing more freee.ly than they were n year
ago at this time. Aa a general thing re
laium have cleaned out their stocks of
winter goods fully ns well as usual, which
ptita them In a position to buy freoly for
next season, and aS the tendency of prices
Is upward rather than downward they
naturally are buying more freely and at an
earlier date than usual.
The market situation continues In a pood
healthy condition, and a number of Import
ant advances have gone Into effect on
staple lines. Those In a position to know
say that tho outlook for continued firm
markets for some time to come was never
better. When that Is the case It Is much
easier for both buyers and sellers to handle
their trade, and that ia one reason w hv
wholesalers and mitnnficturera are looking
for a guod, steudy business fur aome time
to come. ,
Collections are reported na being only
fair. They have been In worse condition
snd they have also heen better. They are
not so slow, however, aa to cause any un
easiness. llnose Trade Not So Brisk.
There wore comparatively few visiting
merchants on the Omaha dry goods market
last weeK. v nolesalera, though, have been
expecting a falling off in the number of
bueis lor some lime past, as the seaain
opened unusually early this year, and for
tiiat reason should have closed early. As
a matter of fact, though, (he demand has
miu on longer than uaul.i and Jobbers re
port their Bales of spring goods much
heavier than a year ago. Order trade,
Loth throuuh traveling salesmen and direct
irom mcrcnunts. continues very liberal,
When It comes to advance business for
fall wholesalers all have a good word to
bay. Bume of them, In fact, report their
aalea so. far about double what they were a
year ago. 1 raveling talesmen are ull on
tne rouu with their fall suinples, and are
much encouraged with the success thoy
have had. Thev are selling laree Quantities
of blankets, shaker flannels, comets, mot
tled llaunels, hosiery, underwear, shirts
and duck goods.
There liuve been no Particular chanires In
the market for cottou goods during the
week under review and none are looked for
at the present time. The advances from
me oia uusis nave Deen very slight on
nearly all lines. In this connection a. loo ill
Jobber said that checked Klnghams have
advanced only In the last ntieen months,
lancy ana staple prints only ftc In tne last
year, while print cloths are nearly lo pur
yard higher than a year ago.
Ticks and denims have been advanced
more thun other lines of cotton goods, due
no doubt in the case of denims to the tact
that the use of duck and denims cloth
seems to have Increased each year, while
the production of those fabrics ia not
greater than formerly.
iu got aeuvenes or. staple lines l now
the greatest problem with Jobbers, and It
is not thought that there will be any im
provement in tnat una tor some lime to
come.
Not Many Changes la Groceries,
Wholesale grocers reDort the demand for
their line of aoode as bum exceutionaliv
good for this season of the year, and better
tnan a year ago. There nave not been many
important market changes, however, but
prices are hrm all along the line, with but
lew exceptions.
In dried trults the demand la reported
very active, with great pressure to sell on
the part of Ureaon Drune holders, but on
almost every other line of dried fruits the
inarKst na Deen in tne sellers favor.
Apricot and peaches, in particular, are
in a very strong position, with the tend
ency of price upward. The same ia true
of evaporated apple and raspberries fuiui
i i or state. Apples snow an advThce
of V&tac per lb. In the last ten days and
raspberries are held by a few shippers at
an advance of ao per lb. over quotations
ruling a week ago.
The demand lor canned goods has Im
proved from week to week, and particularly
bus that been true Of tomatoes and canned
fruits. The price of corn is so hiich and
the supply so limited that the goods are
moving out In a small way. The demand
is Improving for salmon and it is thought
that the recent advance will be sustained on
pink fish, while trading is active at full
prices on flrst-clafcs red Alaska.
There has been no change In the market
on either tea or coffee during the week
unuer leview.
Advance In Prtoe of Rubbers.
The advance In the Drloe of rubber foot.
wear amounting to 74 per cent, which went
into enect tne nrst o: lost week, was a sur
prise to the trade In general. Jobbers were
expecting on advance the first of June, but
they had ho intimation that there would be
an auvance before that time, at teast not
without notice. Another advance of 6 per
oent la being announced to take effect June
1. The reason given for these sharp ad
vances Is the continued rise in the price of
crude rubber, which has forced manufac-
wm. iu-mu v fii.w kiicji iwm ur lull uicii
plants at a loss. A great many retailers
nave laaen me aavise oi joooers ana nave
already placed their orders for fall rubbers.
More of them. In fact, have done that this
yer than ever before, and they, of course,
are now In a much better position than
those wno nave not bought, it is expected
now th. practically every merchant Mill
protect himself against the advancedm
nounced for June 1 and traveling men for
that reason expect to book an Immense
amount of business during tne next few
weeks.
Immediate business In the rubber line la
naturally quiet. There have been no gen
eral rains as yet and until snrlng rains do
set in Jobbers do not expect much business
I or immediate snipment.
In the leather goods line trade Is very
fair. More stormy weather would un
doubtedly belp the trade to ctuito on ex
tent, but still Jobbers, as a rule, are well
natlsfleu with the trade they have expert
enced up to the present time. Tan Bhoea
have been selling to aome extent thla aea
sou, but Jobbers say the demaad out
through the country will be rather limited.
In the larger cities they will be worn to
some extent in the higher priced lines, but
not much trade is expected in the cheaper
class of goods.
Hardware Active aad Steady,
The hardware market has shown very lit
tle change during the week under review.
Prices are firm on practically all lines, but
there have been no quotable changes (bat
are worthy of mention. Not only that, but
Jobbers look for a good healthy market tin
some time to come with very few fluctua
tions in either direction.
So far a a trade la concerned Jobbers have
no complaint to make. All seasonable line)
are moving out very freely and, in fact,
the demand Is. If anything. In excess of ex
pectations. Steel goods, builders' hardware
and s 11 season goods are good sellers.
Fruits and Produce.
The strawberry season is praotically at
hand. Thla week Jobbers expect them to
arrive In carload kits and, according to ad
vices received, the quality will be Kood and
prices reasonable, ijotl week grocers were
retailing berries at SO cents per quart, which
Is a very moderate pi ice for this time of
year.
The demand for oranges has been very
liberal, prices ranging from 12 40 to f 2.7S.
Apples are aiaj sailing freely, but prices
are unchanged.
In the vegetable Une the green stuff Is
now attracting a good deal of attention, us
the supply is better and prices more mod
erate, as will be seen from the quotations
In another column. Potatoes keep going up.
native now selling at Jl and Colorado at
tl 20.
The egg market has been a little lower
the last few days, prices ranging around
It cents. Poulny, on the rtber hand, has
been scarce and firm. Butter has shown
but little change in either direction.
Me Oplans In Chamberlain's rough
Remedy.
There Is not the least danger In giving
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to smal'
children, as It contains no opium or other
hsrmful drug! It hss an established repu
tation of more (than thirty years as the
Itiost successful medicine in use for co d),
croup and whoeping cough. It always
cures and U pleasant to take. CMldren
Uk IU
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